River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-09-22
Temperance.
CONDUCTED BY THE. w. C. t. u.
For God and Home and Natire Land"
Parliamentary rules are being thor

Parliamentary rules are being thor
oughly discussed at our meetings late
ly. We improve-slowly.
An increase in the attendance has a
wonderful effect on the interest and
success of our meetings, and we think
like effect on those who attend. Let
us remember this.
We do not need to go out of town,
or listen to incidents cited by our
lecturers 70 learn of the cruelty of the
drunken husband to the wife. One of
our white ribboners was recently a
witness to scene that caused her
blood to boil with indignation. A
farmer, on his way home from our
city, drove past her house at his ut
most speed, and while thus driving,
alternately used his whip "a large stick
on his horses and his wife, she mean
while trying to reach the back of the
wagon, with tie seeming intent of
jumping out, but on account of the
swaying and jOlting she could not do
so, and as he struck her she screamed
and begged him to stop, but he would
use his whip with renewed force and
poured profaue language on the air.
The indignation of our sister seemed
not to he wholly towards the actor in
this scene, but in part towards a
Christian community whose laws allow
the manufacture of such bruteS as he
was.
We would like to ask what personal
liberty" means, and in this case where
did hers begin and his end! 1t looks
to us as though the personal liberty"
usually spoken of in connection with
the prohibition movement is rather
poorly defined. Another case of this
personal liberty" was that of the
woman who tried so long and hard to
get her husband home from the saloon
and he not being able to get into his
wagon she tried to lift him in, and he,
Keeling and stumbling, would draw
away from her and 60 back, probably
for more strength.
Her personal liberty must have been
a great comfort to her at this time. IL
we don't pity the drunkard or his wife
how is it about the home to which such
as these return? Friends, how much
better would it be for these wives if
we had High Licensed
"Think on these things" j. E. II.
The president of the National Pro-
tectiVe Association OF liquor dealers,
]. M. AthertOn, at their convention at
Cincinnati, advised liquor men not to
object to proper regulation and high
license, bat as one man, to oppose the
growing and impending danger of pro-
hibition.
He also appeals for financial aid to
fight prohibition in Tennessee. The
Association decided to draw its next
years dues from its members immed-
lately. The annual dues aggregate
$50, 900 and it is thought $4,000 will
be sent to Tennessee. About $4,000
have been spent by the anti-saloon Re-
publicans already, and there is a cry
for $25, 900, a good chance for high
license men to perpetuate the traffic at
high figures.
If we are to have drunkards in the
future some of them are to come from
the boys to whom | am writing, and l
ask you again if you want to be one of
them! Mol of course you don't.
Well have plan for you that is
Just as sure to save you from such a
fate as the sun is to rise tomorrow
morning. 1t never failed, it never will
fail; and l think it worth knowing.
Never touch liquor in any form;
that is the plan and it is not only worth
knowing but it is worth putting in
practice. know you don't drink now
and it seems as though you never
would. But your temptation will come,
and it will probably come in this way.
You will find yourself some time with
number of companions, and they
will have a bottle of wine on the table.
They will drink it and offer it to you.
They will regard it as manly prac-
tice, and will very likely look upon you
as a milk-sop if you don't indulge with
them. Then what will you dot What
will you do! viii you say No, no,
none of that stuff for mel or will you
take the glass, with your own common
sense protesting and your conscience
making the draft bitter, with feeling
that you have damaged yourself, and
then go on with hot-head and a sulky
soul that at once begins to make apoi-
ogies for itself, and will keep doing so
all its life! Boys, do not become drum
kards.-[ DR.. Holland.